Quixel releases Quixel Mixer 1.0 in beta
Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
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GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10
Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
Filter Forge releases Filter Forge 7.0
Node-based tool for authoring effects filters gets new workflow to support any 2D image-editing app.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
3DFlow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.5
Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.1
Landscape-generation tool gets better cloud generation, faster previews, and 32-bit EXR output.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Serif releases Affinity Photo for iPad
Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 6
Big update adds new tools for recreating real-world materials via photogrammetry, 32-bit workflow, 8K texture baking.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
Imagineer Systems releases mocha Pro 5.2
Planar tracker gets new floating and $99 render licence types; GPU tracking supports 32-bit footage.
Monday, December 12th, 2016
Serif releases Affinity Photo for Windows
Now shipping: Promising sub-$50 32-bit image editor now available for Windows as well as Mac OS X.
Thursday, December 8th, 2016
FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 2017 and Ignite Pro 2017
All-in-one editing, compositing and VFX app gets 32-bit workflow, 8K res, new editing and grading tools.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
RandomControl ships ArionFX for After Effects, Nuke
Formerly Photoshop-only 32-bit HDR image-editing tool now available for compositing software.
Monday, September 26th, 2016
RandomControl releases ArionFX for Photoshop 3.5
Photoshop add-on for editing HDR images gets support for 32-bit colour grading, new lens effects.
Friday, August 26th, 2016